TikTok Will Not Sell Out!

TikTok will take its fight for free speech to the U.S. Supreme Court.

What cost President Joe Biden his reelection and Vice President Kamala Harris her election was their support for banning TikTok.

AIPAC and the Anti-Defamation League pushed for a bipartisan law to force TikTok to divest its foreign ownership to U.S. companies or face a ban.

Many see it as an attack on free speech and a campaign to suppress information about the genocide conducted by Israel.

The president and Congress claim that the Chinese government is likely to get into the privacy data of users. TikTok U.S. said it's not true and the noise is lying about how the company operates.

Thanks to Biden, voters elected President-elect Donald J. Trump. He hired South African/Canadian/British/American Elon Musk to be in his administration.

Musk owns X (formerly Twitter). It promotes disinformation, pornography, hate speech, deceptive advertising, privacy data sharing, easy hacking and graphic content. And yet, Congress has not force any divestment or sell of X to companies.

Foreign companies own oil, hospitals, grocers and vehicles. What is the big deal?

Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's Tim Cook are supporters of Israel.

China, India, Israel, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Russia and South Korea are notorious for suppressing information.

The U.S. backing of Israel has lead to world leaders denouncing Biden and Trump as weak leaders.

Forcing TikTok to sell its brand from ByteDance is not only illegal but an attack on freedom of speech, commerce, trade and consumer interest.

Trump at one time tried to ban TikTok because of Israel and the attacks on his presidency. He changed his mind and supported creators.

Small business owners and creators rely on TikTok to share. They make a living on it and feel that if the company sells out, it may regulate how content is shared.

The social media company had hoped a federal appeals court would agree with its argument that the law was unconstitutional because it represented a "staggering" impact on the free speech of its 170 million US users.

But the court upheld the law, which it said "was the culmination of extensive, bipartisan action by the Congress and by successive presidents".

TikTok says it will now take its fight to the U.S. Supreme Court, the country's highest legal authority.

The U.S. wants TikTok sold or banned because of what it says are its owners links to the Chinese state - links TikTok and parent company Bytedance have always denied.

The court agreed the law was "carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary, and it was part of a broader effort to counter a well-substantiated national security threat posed by the PRC (People's Republic of China)."

But TikTok said it was not the end of its legal fight.

"The Supreme Court has an established historical record of protecting Americans' right to free speech, and we expect they will do just that on this important constitutional issue," a TikTok spokesperson said in a statement.

They added that the law was based on "inaccurate, flawed and hypothetical information" and a ban would censor U.S. citizens.